Berne Supervisor Sean Lyons said that the assessor’s office made a clerical error and “only collected for the maintenance and operation fees” instead of the full levy.

A renewable-energy draft is just one aspect of a larger comprehensive plan that will eventually be reviewed by the Westerlo Town Board, which will vote to accept it or send it back to the drawing board.

The project will be built using funds provided by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.

Coming from a rich professional and academic background, Berne-Knox-Westerlo Food Services Director Lateef Clark recently helped students win silver in the New York Beef Council’s Top Beef Contest. 

RIC Energy describes almost all of the Albany County Planning Board’s conclusions as “erroneous.”

Superintendent Timothy Mundell stated at the Feb. 22 Berne-Knox-Westerlo School Board meeting that the proposed tax decrease is a result of strategic planning regarding the district’s now-complete $19.8 million capital project.

The disapproval relates to a new regulation passed by the county legislature that requires the county planning board to consider the Helderberg viewshed when reviewing projects, though County Legislator William Reinhardt, who helped develop the regulation, says it may not apply in this case. 

Berne Town Clerk Anita Clayton said that the town’s combative political atmosphere isn’t why she’s retiring, but that she found a recent interview with the Berne Democratic Committee “very upsetting.” 

The conservancy’s attorney argues that the lawsuit is untimely and based on a misunderstanding of New York State Town Law, and that not all relevant parties were included in the demand for relief.

Berne highway employee and former fire chief Peter Becker was killed on Oct. 21 last year when he was crushed by a dump truck he was working on at the town transfer station.